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Book Review: Altar of Secrets

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Aug 14, 2013
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Aries C. Rufo, a prize-winning Filipino journalist, was once a devout Catholic who as a youth "loved staying inside the church for it offered refuge from the punishing heat outside. The airy atmosphere and the deafening silence were pure ecstasy," he writes. As a boy he seriously contemplated entering the seminary although the desire to do so eventually…

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